The march, perhaps 2,000 strong, is headed north up Broadway. Nelini Stamp, a 23-year-old organizer from Bedford- Stuyvesant, ran alongside and handed out fliers. They're headed to Washington Square Park, she said, to join students from city schools rallying there. There will be "students from all over," Stamp said. "It's mostly public school students, who get more of the cuts."

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Protesters have assembled in front of Chase Bank on Broadway. "Shame on you!" they are chanting. Employees inside the branch appear to be laughing.

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As the Occupy Wall Street protests echo around the world, demonstrators took to the streets in Sweden. (Photo by Maja Suslin/AP)

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Swedish protesters echoed the lower Manhattan encampment by describing themselves as the "99 percent" - a reference to the inequality between the average person and the world's richest 1%.

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The protesters awkwardly crossed paths with the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer walkers at the intersection of Murray and Broadway. Both squeezed into one half of the sidewalk to make room for the other.

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The march's informal fife and drum corps makes use of what's at hand, as in the case of this percussionist, as they head at a snail's pace up Broadway past City Hall.

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Marchers are now heading down Chambers. NYPD are shadowing every step of the way

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Protesters march at Bradenburg Gate to support the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in Berlin, Germany. (Michael Sohn/AP)

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In Germany, thousands of protesters marched through Berlin and Frankfurt. The Berlin crowd battled with police as they veered toward Germany's government offices, while the Frankfurt demonstrators used toy pistols to fire soap bubbles. Demonstrations were reported in 50 German cities.

The march, having made a number of twists and turns, continues northward in its unpredictable but mostly orderly fashion, now on West Broadway. This is the route marchers took last weekend on their way to Washington Square.

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Photographers wait for the march at the corner of Franklin and West Broadway.

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NYPD are telling business owners along West Broadway not to allow protesters or media on stoops or property. The marchers are staying on the sidewalk.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly just answered a few questions about today's protests:

"There's about 500 people marching toward Washington Square Park. We're aware of their destination, so far things have been very orderly."

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Kelly, however, refused to guarantee that cops would be able to avoid future clashes with the Occupy Wall Street marchers:

"I can't look down the road, I don't have a crystal ball. We are going to enforce the law when it's violated. The vast majority of the demonstrations have been peaceful and we'd like them to stay that way."

The protesters have converged to the west of Washington Square Park, and are preparing to hold a General Assembly, a form of community meeting held twice daily in Zuccotti Park.

"We're going to wait a few minutes and let everyone get settled in, then get some more information," an organizer said before the drums started up again and the crowd began chanting "Get up, get down. There's revolution in this town," and "We are unstoppable, another world is possible."

Will Russell, 30, said he and friends were waiting at Washington Square Park. "This is a General Assembly for students and people who are related to education in some way, to lay the foundation for a weekly GA," the biology graduate student at Hunter College said. Russell, a resident of the East Village, said that he's heard plans to foster broader involvement among the city's students, but declined to speculate on how that may be accomplished.

Marchers came to the park to hold an informational meeting last weekend. "This is a student movement," Russell said. "This is one struggle whether you're a worker or a student or a parent."

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Different groups and workshops have sprung up across Washington Square espousing liberal causes. This one is about how to reform health care to provide for all people.

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via Matt Lysiak, on the scene:

The several hundred marchers have just hit Washington Square where several hundred more were waiting.

"Take the square!" they chanted as the poured in through the giant arches.

"Now the whole world can hear us and we have a message for them - we are here. We are staying. And we are really, really, pissed off," said Mark Diamond, 28, a student at NYU.

"Change begins here and now," he said.

Several marchers beat drums played cow bell, and one man played sax as they circled around the inside of the park to cheers and applause.

Park security stationed itself in the grass to prevent protesters from leaving the sidewalks.

"This is what Democracy looks like," they chanted..along with "We got sold out. They got bailed out!"

Different circles around the park focused on different aspects of the "movement" - including a health care forum and a "students ally with labor."

It was eclectic. A communist organization was handing out literature. A few Ayn Rand advocates were holding "End the FED" signs.

"I'm here to voice my discontent to end the wars, tax the rich, clean up the environment," said Scott Mccullion, 56, Ocean City, Maryland.

"In 72 I marched against the war. Now I'm active again and it feels great. Everyone is energized. It's contagious. It's revolution."

Labor Unions were also strong in number. Especially UAW members.

"Inequality is at a ridiculous level. The top one percent wields all the influence. We are here to take it back," said Chris Garcia, 22, Maspeth, Queens.

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As the General Assembly begins, word drifts through the crowd that Times Square is the next destination. A march is planned to leave for Times Square at 3:30 pm.

Chris Said, 29, a neuroscientist who works at NYU, is in the crowd here. "I have a job and I don't have any personal difficulties," he said. "But the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer and I think that's bad for society."

Said, who lives on Washington Square Park, has been visiting Zuccotti Park regularly over the last three weeks. "I think wealthy people in America have too much money and too much power. I'd like to see higher taxes on the rich."

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At least a dozen protesters are now being arrested outside Citibank at 555 LaGuardia. One protester's hands were bleeding as he was pulled into an NYPD van

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Protester leaves Citibank in cuffs.

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As the protesters are being led out of Citibank in cuffs, the crowd cheers and yells "thank you!"

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After hearing that students were arrested at a Citibank branch on La Guardia Place blocks from Washington Square Park, a contingent of several hundred protesters broke off to join them.

"We're coming here in solidarity with them to protest what I am sure were their illegal arrests," said Josh Wiles, 27, a teacher who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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The number of arrests at Citibank is up to twenty.

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The protesters that were not arrested at Citibank have again converged on Washington Square Park.

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A protester in Washington Square Park takes a smoke break under a giant papier mache megaphone. The protesters have been prohibited from using megaphones.

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A new standard bearer joins the front of the march as it moves out the north entrance of Washington Square Park. Organizers say they're marching to Times Square.

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To those of you hearing reports of a standoff and arrests at Chase Bank at Astor Place, our photographer on the scene says about 40 protesters talked about getting arrested and had a brief sit-in before getting up at the last second and avoiding arrest.

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Marchers continue up Sixth Avenue, at the corner of West Tenth Street now, with occasional reminders from the police to remain on the sidewalk and off the lampposts.

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As the march continues north up 6th Avenue, David Suker hands out copies of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and invites passersby to join. As for why the crowd is headed to Times Square, the 43-year-old teacher from the South Bronx says, "To party. We're celebrating yesterday's victory over Bloomberg and his Wall Street buddies."

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The view down 6th from the corner of W. 13th.

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Protesters now line both sides of 6th as they approach 21st street. Police initially tried to hold the marchers to the east side of the street. A representative of the National Lawyers Guild said she has heard of no arrests since those at the Citibank branch.

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Protesters Bob Alft, 62, of Voorheesville, N.Y., and his two kids. They drove down to Times Square for the protest.

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Protesters in Times Square chanting "We are the 99 percent."

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Every few blocks the two lines of protesters stop at an intersection to coordinate the pace of the march, as here at 26th and 6th.